Approximate extension of partial -characters of Abelian groups to characters with application to integral point lattices.

DOI10.1016/S0019-3577(05)80026-6MaRDI QIDQ2566740zbMATH OpenFDO

Publication date 28 September 2005

Published in Indagationes Mathematicae. New Series (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/S0019-3577(05)80026-6

Abelian groups approximate extensions dual groups dual lattices integral point lattices partial homomorphisms Ulam problem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Lattices and convex bodies (number-theoretic aspects) (11H06) Ultraproducts (number-theoretic aspects) (11U07) Integral representations of infinite groups (20C12) Ordinary representations and characters (20C15) Automorphisms, homomorphisms, endomorphisms, etc. for abelian groups (20K30) Topological methods for abelian groups (20K45)

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Let \(G\) be an Abelian group, \(S\subseteq G\) be a finite set, and \(T\) denote the multiplicative group of complex units with the invariant arc metric \(|\arg(a/b)|\). In this paper the authors show that for a mapping \(f\colon S\to T\) to be \(\varepsilon\)-close on \(S\) to a character \(\varphi\colon G\to T\) it is enough that \(f\) be extendable to a mapping \(\overline f\colon(S\cup\{1\}\cup S^{-1})^n\to T\), where \(n\) is large enough and \(\overline f\) violates the homomorphy condition at most up to an arbitrary \(\delta<\min(\varepsilon,\pi/2)\), Moreover, \(n\) can be chosen uniformly, independently of \(G\) and both \(f\) and \(\overline f\), depending just on \(\delta,\varepsilon\) and the number of elements of \(S\). -- The proof is non-constructive, using the ultraproduct construction and Pontryagin duality, hence yielding no estimate on the actual size of \(n\). As one of the applications they show that, for a vector \(u\in\mathbb{R}^q\) to be \(\varepsilon\)-close to some vector from the dual lattice \(H^*\) of a full rank integral point lattice \(H\subseteq\mathbb{Z}^q\), it is enough for the scalar product \(ux\) to be \(\delta\)-close (with \(\delta<1/3\)) to an integer for all vectors \(x\in H\) satisfying \(\sum_i|x_i|\leq n\), where \(n\) depends on \(\delta,\varepsilon\) and \(q\) only.

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